This may be the wrong place to post about this issue, but oh well, I can't find an e-mail address for the site administrator.

I could log into the forums just fine, but as of yesterday TR refuses to recognize my password on the comments sections (I never changed it). I couldn't figure out how to fix the issue, so I went into the forums and reset my password and then switched it back to what I had originally. Still no dice.

What's a brother to do?

Last edited by Captain Ned on Sun Nov 30, 2014 11:20 am, edited 2 times in total.
Reason:EDIT BY MOD: Temporarily making the thread a sticky.

I had the same problem. The username field is now case sensitive. You have you enter your nic exactly the way you entered it when you originally registered: Kunikos not kunikos. (If you're using FF or another browser with a password manager make sure it gets updated too).

Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.

Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.

Yes, but it's not obvious that's the place to look. They weren't having any problem with the forums, which is what you would associate with the new phpBB. It certainly wasn't obvious to me why a change in the forums would suddenly cause the front page comment login to stop working, particularly because that exact same login appeared to be working with the new phpBB-based forum.

It's also buried in a long-ass thread.

Yeah. On page 6. In fact derFunkenstein posted about it just a couple of comments after I posted the solution, and he didn't see it.

So it's good we have a clearly-titled topic for this issue, since there are probably more than a few occasional posters who haven't yet had a reason to make a comment on the front page and encounter the problem.

UberGerbil wrote:I had the same problem. The username field is now case sensitive. You have you enter your nic exactly the way you entered it when you originally registered: Kunikos not kunikos. (If you're using FF or another browser with a password manager make sure it gets updated too).

OK, well, I'll give it a try. But I don't get why it's case sensitive only for the comments page and not for the forums themselves.

Kunikos wrote:OK, well, I'll give it a try. But I don't get why it's case sensitive only for the comments page and not for the forums themselves.

It didn't make any sense to me, either, which is why it took so long for me to figure it out. But sroylance said something about rewriting the hashing algorithm, so it's probably a side-effect of that (though why it doesn't also apply in the forums I still have no idea).

I've run into this problem.No amount of case-switching or cache/cookie cleaning seemed to help, so I tried something else.I changed my forum password, got reactivation mail (probably because I changed my email address aswell), reactivated -> comments worked again.I changed forum password back to the old one (I like it better), got no reactivation mail -> comments stopped working, forum is still no problem.

The only possible cause I can think of next, is that my prefered password has special characters (", $). Could this be causing the comment-system to throw me "Woops, incorrect username or password"?[EDIT]Now that I think of it, I don't seem to remember problems before on Vista x64, but only since I switched to 7 x64. Another possible source of different character-handling with these special characters in my password?

I'm now having the same issue Derfer had 2 years ago. I can't stay logged in to the forums or the comments section for more than a few seconds, if I even get logged in at all. There are times when I have to login 2 or 3 times before it "sticks" and even then I'll wind up being kicked off in the middle of writing a post. I've tried Chrome and Firefox in addition to disabling the AV on my system, which doesn't appear to help.

The Egg wrote:I have nothing to add, but we can probably pull the stickie off this. Only one person with an issue in over 3 years.

One person who posted something about the issue. Without knowing read counts we don't know how many people had an issue, found and read this thread which solved their problem, but didn't post about it one way or the other. That said, is this still an issue or are the login systems consistently permissive (or at least unified) wrt case on the user name?